Muses Quotes

54 quotes by 53 authors

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts. — Franco Zeffirelli
There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again… — Wendell Berry
The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone… — Plato
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks — Miriam
Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a… — Thornton Willis
We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book… — Ezra Pound
All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible… — Allan Bloom
There is no wide road which leads to the Muses. — Propertius
Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has… — Will Self
The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance. — Edgar Degas
My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals... — Katherine Dunn
Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons. — Wes Nisker
Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face,… — Callimachus
True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work. — Robert Genn
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. — Amy Tan
She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a… — Millard Kaufman
Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses. — Tom Robbins
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm,… — Anne Fadiman

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